"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves."

"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it."

"ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography."

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

"MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees."

"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."

"One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich."